Lighting control, flexibility, comfort and sustainability
are the key themes around which Simes foresees the
lighting of the future.
When the advent of LEDs turned the lighting world
upside down, we could not have imagined that
electronics and the potential to control light would
pave the way for a new revolution.
Digitalisation, combined to an ever-incresing care
for the environment, is bringing a much-needed
awareness and a shift from a human-centric to an
eco-centric approach.
Even in the world of lighting, limiting our impact on
the planet and managing resources effectively and
responsibly is becoming a priority.
Dimming, the use of sensors and programmed
flux reduction are some of the ways in which new
technologies allow us to reduce consumption and
provide light only when and where it is needed.
Avoiding light dispersion, especially towards the sky,
becomes the focus point of a shared and collective
design aimed at reducing light pollution of the night
sky.
The use of comfort optics to avoid visual disturbance
and glare and the development of tunable white
solutions are the result of a culture rooted in the
concept of personal well-being and respect for
biological rhythms.
With the first edition of Simes MAG, we created a
new alphabet inspired by the concept of the Point
and Line to Plane, to encourage the use of new forms
of writing space through light.
In this second issue we want to project ourselves into
the future and talk about an increasingly present and
necessary culture where light, in addition to fulfilling
specific functions, now plays an important social
role.
